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Each other? >> we dont have the power to do it and dont have the votes to do it. well never get a resolution to the floor. take the majority back, may be a different story. >> should run on 2018 on trying to impeach the president? >> thats a tactical consideration and i think most of our leadership on the house side at least have said we dont want to rile up the republican vote. theres a huge energy advantage and our voters are telling us every day, our base is saying, go after him. impeach him....

Conversation. hes the one forced us to have a tough question for our future and hes the one providing the answer. pelosi has said she has the t two-thirds support she needs to continue serving as minority leader. joining me now, tim ryan, i know you want this job, tell me why should you get it? >> i can help us win the house back and go into district all over the united states and connect with trump voters and independents who voted for trump and help them realize that it is the democratic party...

It. it rubs them the wrong way. all of sudden he came out with statements and they were poorly, poorly done, things that he said regarding mexico. the things he said i dont agree with in that regard but the fact of the matter is immigration was at the forefront. what he is trying to do now lay down the foundation. look i told you i told you this was going to be a problem but the solution -- everybody wants to tell us what the problem is. you bring up a great point about congress. why dont you ge...

Dog. so this is totally irresponsible, completely juvenile and as i called it legislative arson. its just destructive. >> let me ask you to clear up any misconceptions we may have about the speakership and if your caucus so wanted and democrats were to win next year, win the majority back, would you be willing to be speaker again if your caucus wanted you? >> the question was asked me before. do you sit around dreaming of being speaker again. i said no. they read that into she doesnt want to be ...

Scharl kroef that went all the rest of the country but september out of massachusetts. what gabriel is saying, he is a new kind of republican but he is saying he is going to accept all of that money. it is undisclosed. it is unlimited, and it is unseemly to have that kind of outside influence not be i dont know by the voters of the state of massachusetts as they cast their ballots. >> this morning one of the releases i voted was from something called senate majority back which of course is a sup...

Him so badly in 2012, in his view, just wont take yes for an answer. so theres a little bit of exasperation by the president. but pull back the camera, and you see the bigger strategy, which is looking ahead to the midterm elections in 2014. by picking tough fights with the hill, the president uses his office to draw contrast with the republicans might make it easier for house democrats to get a majority back in 2014. it would be a long shot, but that would be bookends for the majority the presi...

Keeping his/her pledge. democrats were vehemently against all these tax cuts because they raise the deficit. these will raise the deficit by about $4 trillion. are you worried last night the deal added too much to the deficit? how come democrats have basically embraced these bush tax cuts from about a decade ago? >> lets look at what the reason was the democrats opposed those 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. its because they werent paid for. they blew a massive hole in the deficit, along with the two war...

He does a pocket veto to stop the whole chance of us having a budget, whatever budget we should have. but we dont get a chance to have it considered? >> thats the power of the majority. you get to set the agenda in the senate. thats why elections matter f. we get the majority back, the responsibility will be on us to do a budget next year, the first time in four years to have acted on that. its unfortunate because you are not setting out for the american people, your plan to get the spending and...

Does -- a pocket veto to stop the whole chance of us having a budget, whatever budget we should have. but we dont get a chance to have it considered. >> thats the power of the majority. you get to set the agenda in the senate. thats why elections matter. thats why if we get the majority back, the responsibility will be uponitous do a budget next year, the first time, next year in four years, we will have acted on that. its really unfortunate because you -- you are want setting out for the americ...

It becomes finalized, the president -- boehner is then going to have a challenge from the right, but the president is going to win because hes going to be the guy who was around when the moderate deal was made. >> american politics is always based on who can get to the center when the vote is going. the president is racing to the center. >> hesing dragged there. >> he did health care, he did a lot of things last year, a lot of stimulus, a lot of stuff that helped him. but now hes saying its time...